Guy Peellaert, the Belgian artist probably best known to rock fans as the artist behind the cover for David Bowie’s Diamond Dogs, died on Monday in Paris. Peellaert was an accomplished comic strip artist who designed posters for films like Taxi Driver and Paris, Texas as well as the decidedly creepy cover for the Bowie album, which at first included visible genitalia for Bowie’s man/dog. Peellaert’s book with writer Nik Cohn, Rock Dreams, sold a million copies (thanks in part to Columbia House); the “fantasy tribute to rock and roll and R & B” imagined meetings between rock icons and contained pastels of a bathing Jim Morrison. Peellaert was 74. [homepage]
Guy Peellaert, R.I.P.
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What, I’m the only commenter so far? Rock Dreams remains one of the 10 most important books about R&R, and is absolutely a must-have volume for those ensorcelled by the mythology of rock and what it meant to pop culture. My only wish would have been a sequel to the book. The individual paintings in the book should be available as art prints, complete with Nik Cohn’s pithy, spot-on captions. RIP, Mr. Peelaert….